Re: [Usability]Dealing with files in Gnome

[nestor d v <nestordiaz misfotos de>]

One idea:
If the folder has a couple of recognised documents, music and images,
why not make the sidebar show the following buttons/icons: play music,
view image and edit image so the user just have to drop the file to the
button of the action he/she wants. No internal viewer is used in first
place, and in this way we follow the drag-and-use method for emblems and
other stuff in gnome.
Another example: a folder contains a OOO document and a plain text
document. Then, the sidebar will show: [open with OOO] and [edit with
gedit.]
If the user tries to drop the OOO document to the edit with gedit the
button will became grey before the mousebutton is released, this way the
user is advised that the program won't open that file. For the plain
text file both buttons will be highlighted on mouseover with the file
picked.
This is much faster than opening in the embebbed viewer and then
choosing the program in the sidebar. You can throw several files also,
say to the mediaplayer and you will add them to the playlist.
This way we have a common behaviour for different filetypes (coherence?)
Yours:
nestor diaz
augcyl.org
hispalinux.es
gimp.es.gnome.org

El mar, 01-04-2003 a las 15:59, MArk Finlay escribió:
> > Then you're throwing the generic bonobo container idea overboard. That
> > just *has* to have some useful purpose, right? We just haven't found it
> > yet...
> 
> Well it's relatively useful for folder views. Can't say I use them much
> myself. But for files I think that they are just wrong!